# The Child Minding and Day Care (Disclosure Functions) (England) Regulations 2004, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Children Act 1989;
“associate” means any person, other than a childcare provider—
(a) looking after, or likely to be looking after, children on, or
(b) living or employed or otherwise working on,
any relevant premises;
“authorised person” means a person authorised for any of the purposes of section 79U of the Act;
“childcare provider” means a child minder or a day care provider and includes a person who was a childcare provider but who, at the time of any request for, or provision of, information pursuant to these Regulations, is not providing childcare; and “childcare” shall be construed accordingly;
“early years development and childcare partnership” means a partnership established under section 119 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998;
“enforcement action” includes the serving of any notice, and the imposition of any requirement or condition, upon a childcare provider, any suspension of registration and any application pursuant to section 75 or section 79K to a justice of the peace (protection of children in an emergency);
“local government area” has the meaning given in section 270 of the Local Government Act 1970, save that the words “Greater London” shall be omitted for this purpose;
“relevant premises” means, in relation to a childcare provider, any premises on which he is, or is likely to be, or was at a material time, providing childcare;
“setting”, in relation to childcare, means the premises on which childcare takes place or, as the case may be, is intended to take place, or took place at a material time, together with any equipment and personnel associated with the provision of that childcare.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/3136/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-disclosure-functions-england-regulations-2004/regulation-2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.